AIDE TO GLASGOW LEADER PICKED FOR PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDACY

The Labour party has selected Andy Kerr, an aide to Glasgow City Council leader Frank McAveety, to fight East Kilbr...

The Labour party has selected Andy Kerr, an aide to Glasgow City Council leader Frank McAveety, to fight East Kilbride in the Scottish parliamentary elections next May, reported The Herald (24 Oct, p6).

Janis Hughes, an NHS administrator and Unison activist, has been chosen to fight Rutherglen.

Labour party members have reported the Labour group on Wirral MBC to the party leadership for alleged misconduct after a councillor accused activists of intimidation and abuse in his resignation letter and warned councillors across Merseyside are also facing hostility and the threat of de-selection.

Citizens of European Union member states will keep their right to stand and vote in next May’s local elections despite uncertainty over a final Brexit deal, Cabinet Office minister Chloe Smith has said.

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